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Guardian www.guardian.co.tt Tuesday, June 10, 2014
If the way to begin a journey of a
thousand miles is with a single step
then South African cricket has finally
put its running shoes on. The appoint-
ment of the new Test captain, Hashim
Amla, and announcement of the
squads to tour Sri Lanka next month
marks the beginning of a new era, and
coach Russell Domingo is itching to
get started.
Domingo can hardly be blamed for
his eagerness to get going. Although
his tenure is not even a year old, it has
been punctuated with elements of tran-
sition which began when Gary Kirsten
left the coaching job last June. Then
in the space of a summer Jacques Kallis
and Graeme Smith retired, leaving
Domingo with a season sprinkled with
sentiment but not altogether steeped
in success.
South Africa lost their first Test series
in five years, to Australia at home, and
slipped from their No 1 ranking. Winter
arrived before they had the chance to
begin rebuilding, leaving Domingo s
plans paused for the last three months.
Now, he can finally press play.
"Those (Kirsten, Kallis and Smith)
are three great servants to South African
cricket and they are going to be hard
to replace. But the game goes on,"
Domingo said. "We ve now got to start
trying to find some new icon players
and some new heroes and we ve got
some of those in the group already."
Amla is one of them. AB de Villiers
another. Dale Steyn a third. But the
personality of the South African squad
will change from what it was under
Smith through the changing of the cap-
taincy guard and the introduction of
new players.
Two fresh faces will appear in the
travelling party to Sri Lanka, batsman
Stiaan van Zyl and offspinner Dane
Piedt, who are both strong candidates
to debut.
Dean Elgar is expected to be the new
opening batsman, Quinton de Kock,
who forms part of a touring Test squad
for the first time, may make an appear-
ance at No 7 and Wayne Parnell is the
additional fast bowler in the squad.
Those names reflect a lack of experience
but for Domingo, also an opportunity
to mould the side his way.
The first assignment with this new-
look outfit will be tough because it will
be played in the place South Africa last
lost a Test series away from home, Sri
Lanka, in 2006. But things will ease
off after that with a one-off match
against a Zimbabwean side that has
played next to no cricket since last Sep-
tember and a three-Test home series
against West Indies. By the end of those
matches and a tour of Bangladesh next
winter, South Africa will know how the
Test side is shaping up for future con-
tests such as England at home in the
2015-16 summer.
Domingo does not have that much
time with the one-day side. They need
to have their blueprint for next year s
World Cup in place soon, which
Domingo started working on last sea-
son. "That s been going for the last two
or three series. Our focus has been on
trying to develop a style and a structure
of play that we think will be suitable
in Australia. So now we have to have
a continuation of that process."
South Africa have not played an ODI
since December, when they hosted
India. They won the series 2--0 with
the third match a washout to end a
three-month period in which they also
beat Pakistan in a five-match series in
the UAE. Although South Africa lost
the return series at home, they won
seven out of ten completed matches
between October and December and
the ODI outfit stabilised from earlier
in 2013, when they were booted out of
the Champions Trophy at the semi-
final stage and lost 4--1 in Sri Lanka.
Returning to the scene of that shame
will give Domingo a chance to see how
far his fifty-over side has progressed.
Domingo eager to
get going in new era
South Africa coach Russell Domingo, left, with captain Hashim Amla during a
practice session. PHOTO: ESPNCRICINFO